Field Activity 2025-643-FA

Identifier 2025-643-FA
Alternate names Prince William Sound paleotsunami 2025
Purpose To collect sedimentary evidence of tsunami inundation from past earthquakes and landslides
Location Kings Bay and Port Fidalgo in Prince William Sound
Info derived grain size, tides, sediment thickness, depth to bedrock, radiometric age dating
Projects
Platform
Alaskan Gyre
Itinerary
Start Whittier, AK 2025-08-05
End Whittier, AK 2025-08-14
Days in the field 8
Bounds
West -148.88562022
East -146.02587864
North 60.90052575
South 60.3929619

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators SeanPaul M La Selle
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
SeanPaul M La Selle
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Rob Witter ASC, Nikita Avdievitch AVO, Alena Giesche ASC

Data types and categories

Data category: Sampling, Environmental Data
Data type: Geology, Tide

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Russian peat corer Geology, Surveys (geochemical) (no data reported)
hand auger Chemistry, Geology (no data reported)
RBR Virtuoso Mooring (physical oceanography), Tide, Wave, Turbidity, pH, ORP, Fluorescence, Dissolved Oxygen, Temperature, Pressure, CTD (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity